Welcome to the Franklin County Amateur Radio Club
If you are interested in joining the club and would like to attend a meeting, the club meets on the first Monday of each month at the Forks Cafeteria located at 339 Brooks St, Wake Forest, NC 27587
Feel free to join us for dinner with the members at 6pm. The meeting starts at 7pm and generally runs through to around 8pm.
In the event of a meeting falling on a public holiday, the meeting will be moved to the following Monday.
Club meetings take place at 7pm
at The Forks Cafeteria on the
first Monday of each month.
You can confirm the date and time on the Discord or Groups.IO page.
2026 ARRL Field Day with FCARC
Franklin County Amateur Radio Club will be operating a Field Day Contest Station on the
weekend of the 27-28 July.
Start time is 2pm EST Saturday and will end at 2pm EST Sunday.
The location of the station will be their usual site
near Sharon Lake.
The intersection at Highway 98 and Moore's Pond
Road is having a new roundabout installed beginning June 15th, so we expect this area to be
closed during field day. As such, all access will need to be done using Highway
401.
The GPS Coordinates are 35.9589692514323,
-78.41645324362261.
The entrance to the Field Day site will be marked with large
banners. Please come and join us!
Weekly Club Nets on 2m and HF
Franklin County Amateur Radio Club operates a weekly net Wednesday
nights at
8pm on the 146.715 repeater.
Net participants are welcomed to
give
a
ragchew in addition to the week's discussion topic. All licensed radio amateurs are invited to check
in.
Daryl Cash K4DCP holds a weekly HF net in the General Voice portion of
80m.
Join Daryl and other local hams Tuesday night at
7:30
pm EST on or around
3.850 MHz +/- 5 kHz dependent on QRM.
Groups.IO Discussion Forums
The club is uses Groups.IO as the primary communication method and you are invited to join. Visit the link below and register an account to join.
